Re: excluding patterns from the --delete option?

2003-03-02 Thread jw schultz
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 11:30:16PM -0800, Mason Lee wrote: > Please could someone tell me if it is possible to specify in a single > rsync command that the --delete option should apply to all files except > those matching a certain pattern? I want to do a -a archive, except > that a few direc

excluding patterns from the --delete option?

2003-03-02 Thread Mason Lee
Please could someone tell me if it is possible to specify in a single rsync command that the --delete option should apply to all files except those matching a certain pattern? I want to do a -a archive, except that a few directories should not have --delete applied. Do I need to use two rsy

Cosmetic

2003-03-02 Thread Zenon Panoussis
When using --progress , the download progress of the current file appears before the name of the file being copied. If the next file is up to date, the user never gets to see which file was updated. It would be more logical (and aestheticaly better) to put the file name and the progress the other w

csum-length documentation

2003-03-02 Thread jw schultz
I was startled to find that the --csum-length option is not implemented even though it is documented in the manpage. Not a good thing. Here's a patch that removes the manpage entry. I'd much rather not see this option and actually have the csum_length be per-file dynamic. Either way this patch s

Re: Copying EAs and ACLs

2003-03-02 Thread jw schultz
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 01:58:03PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: > jw schultz wrote: > > Although NTFS supports ACLs the cygwin environment does not > > _yet_ reflect that.*** NTFS ACLs do not quite translate to > > and from POSIX. The semantic differences mean that > > information is lost translating

Re: Copying EAs and ACLs

2003-03-02 Thread Max Bowsher
jw schultz wrote: > Although NTFS supports ACLs the cygwin environment does not > _yet_ reflect that.*** NTFS ACLs do not quite translate to > and from POSIX. The semantic differences mean that > information is lost translating each direction. Cygwin *does* support NTFS ACLs _now_ (I think the imp

Re: Copying EAs and ACLs

2003-03-02 Thread jw schultz
Access Control Lists (ACLs) and Extended Attributes (EA) are an area i have seen for some time as something rsync will need to address. I've put a tighter focus on this issue for the past week or so and have reached a few conclusions. 1. ACL and EA OS support is growing but not really there yet.